Re: [OpenAFS] Microsoft Windows 2003 and OpenAFS client

The hot fix for Windows 2003 and XP64 is now available from
Microsoft.  If you have an OpenAFS client installed please
consider this critical

  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969289

Jeffrey Altman


Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> Next week Microsoft will be posting Knowledge Base article KB969289
> which describes a flaw in the Microsoft SMB Redirector on Windows Server
> 2003. A public hot fix will be available for download once this KB
> article is posted. All users of Windows 2003 that have an OpenAFS for
> Windows client installed on the system *should* upgrade to SP2 and
> install this hot fix.  The issue in question can result in machine
> performance degradation over time with loss of access to file systems
> accessed via the SMB redirector (Windows File Shares, Dfs, AFS, etc.)
> and eventually loss of console access. 
> 
> Administrators are strongly encouraged to install OpenAFS for Windows
> 1.5.59 at the same time they install the KB969289 hot fix.  If 2003 SP2
> and the KB969289 hot fix cannot installed, it is imperative that OAFW
> 1.5.59 be installed.  Prior releases of OAFW are more likely to tickle
> the condition that results in the performance degradation.
> 
> It is suspected that the Windows XP version of the SMB redirector
> contains the same issue.  As XP will reach the end of its mainstream
> support next Tuesday and hard evidence of the issue has yet to be
> submitted to Microsoft by a paying PSS customer, it is unlikely that a
> fix will be made available.
> 
> Jeffrey Altman
>